Show I Grace Brown to Chester Gillette Womans Simple Documents That Made a Criminal Case Famous and Virtually 1 Sealed the Fate of a Murderer When Read to the Jury That Tried Him for I His Life Hcrklmer N YPrlnted below nro letters which within the past few weeks have become known almost from one end of tho country to the other as Graco Browns letters They need no Introduction save perhaps per-haps the statement that these aro tho letters which were read at tho trial of Chester Gillette They formed the most remarkable I feature of that case The wholo structure struc-ture of the prosecuting attorney was built upon them It passes understanding under-standing why tho murderer of the w ctrl should have preserved a series of documents which It Is safe to say T spoiled his doom from the moment they were placed In the hands of a Jury of 12 men It Is Inconceivable that Gillette kept them for their pathos or tho gentleness of character charac-ter which they revealed for he Is not tho kind of a man to whom such things appeal It Is utterly Improbable Improb-able that he ever recognized In them a simple literary beauty although touch they do possess In an unusual degreethe more unusual when It 1s remembered that Graco Drown was n country girl of plain education who t had worked as a factory hand j Yet somehow Gillette kept them kind the American public has come Into jthe possession of one of the most re tnarkablo series of documents that ever appeared In a criminal case Asa As-a revelation of character as tho written writ-ten record of a tortured soul they thavo already taken a place unique In tho annals of real life tragcdics Here are the letters I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN But Somehow 1 Have Trusted You More Than Any One Else South Giselle June 21st 1906 Wednesday NightMy Dear Chester I I am just ready for bed and am so 111 I could not help writing to you I Chester I came home because I thought I could trust you I dont L think now I will be hero after next Friday This girl wrote mo that you oy seemed to be having an awfully good time and she guessed that my coming 3 homo had done you good as you had not seemed so cheerful In weeks She also said that you spent most of your time < h that detestable Graco Hill Now Chester she does not know I dislike Miss Hill and so did not r write that because she know It would j make mo feel badly but Just because eho didnt think I should have I known Chester that you did not care s for mo But somehow I have trusted I fife you moro than anyone else When S over the other girls have said hateful things to me of you I could not be Hove them You told me oven promIsed prom-Ised meOU would have nothing to do with her while I was gone Perhaps Chester you dont think or you cant help making me grlove but I wish things wore different You may say you do too but you cant possibly wish so more than I I have c been very bravo since I came home but tonight I am very discouraged Chester If I could only die I know how you feel about this affair and I wish for your sake you need not be 9 troubled If I die I hope you can then be happy I hope I can die The doctor doc-tor says I will and then you can do 1 just as you like I am not the lens bit offended with you only I am a lit t tie blue tonight and I feel this way I miss you Oh dear you dont know how much I miss you Honestly e Honest-ly dear I am coming back next week unless you can como for mo right Away I am so lonesome I cant stand it Week ago tonight we were together to-gether Dont you remember how I cried dear I have cried like that nearly all the time since I left Cort land I am awfully blue 4l Now dear let mo tell you You will get this Monday some time Now you please write mo Monday night and be sure and post It Tuesday mornlni and then I will get It or ought to a Wednesday morning I Just want to BOO what the trouble Is why 1 dont t hear from you I was telling mamma yesterday how you wrote and I never got It and she said Why Billy If he wrote you would have received It She did not mean anything but I I was mad and said Mamma Chester Ches-ter never lied to me and I know he wrote If you were only here dear how glad I would be Dont you think I am awfully brave I am doing so much better than I thought I should I think about you dear all the time and wonder what you are doing I am so frightened ti fright-ened dear Maudo has Invited me down for next Tuesday but I dont think I can go Oh say If you post a letter to me Tuesday morning I will got It Tuesday night Well dear + they aro calling me to dinner and I will stop Please write or I will bo tt crazy Bo a good kid and Cod bless you Lovingly TUB KID P S I am crying COME AND TAKE MI AWAY There Isnt a Girl in the World as Miserable as I Am Tonight South Otsollc Juno 20th 1906 Toes day NightMy Dear Chester I am writing to tell you that I am coming back to Cortland I simply cant stay hero any longer Mamma worries and wonders why I cry so much and I am just about sick Please come and take mo away some place dear I came up homo this morning and I just cant help crying all the time just as I did Saturday night I cant stay here dear and please dont ask mo to any longer Do you miss mo much I am so lonesome without you I dont know how I am going to manage about going to Undo Charles I presume I will have to write you to meet mo In Clnclnnatus now wo dont know anyone there Chester there Isnt a girl In the world as miserable as I am tonight and you have made me feel so Chestor I dont mean that dear you have always been awfully good to mo and I know you will always be You Just wont be a coward I know My broth ors and sisters are at a social reception recep-tion tonight but they cant get over my crying I do wish you were hero I cant wait so long for letters dear You must write moro often please and dear when you read my letters If you think I am unreasonable please do not mind it but do think I am about crazy with grlet and that I dont know Just what to do Please write to me dear Lovingly you know whom South Otscllc Juno 19 1906 Jilt 1 U u lei D L I I yp + w f I 4 1 I if J l + II A p v1 r I I n GRACE BILLY BROWN j GrlE5TER GILLETTE 0 VI dCt |